Testing organisation’s methodology slammed again.
ConsumerReports.org
, the online wing of American consumers association
Consumers Union
, is once again taking flak for its testing of security software, but this time for erring in the other direction.
Just weeks after revelations that the company
created thousands of viruses
to test AV software, it has been roundly slated for a set of tests on spyware software using only
Spycar
, intended to be the Spyware industry’s equivalent of the
Eicar
AV test file. However,
Spycar
is a spyware simulator, intended to test behaviour-based detection, and so inappropriate for the on-demand tests
ConsumerReports
used it for. Apparently no genuine spyware was included in the testing.
Read some of the criticism
here
and
here
.
Posted on 30 August 2006 by
Virus Bulletin
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